Street Fighter II was massive back in the day. After launching on the SNES it would be ported to practically every other games machine on the face of the planet, including the monochrome Game Boy. One format that didn't get it was the ill-fated Virtual Boy - understandable when you consider how much of a commercial bomb it was - but two talented homebrew developers have fixed that.

Developers Mr. Anon and MK are the ones behind Hyper Fighting, and have not only produced an impressive game on a legit-looking cart, but also a manual and box to go along with it. As you can see from the footage below, the game actually looks pretty amazing - certainly much better than we'd have expected.

The game will never be sold, however - the moment someone actually tries to make cash off the back of the back of this project is the moment when Capcom is likely to get involved due to the obvious similarity of Hyper Fighting to Street Fighter II. Still, the copies that have made it into the wild are certain to become highly-desirable collector's items.

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@vdallos i would kill for any "new" SF on Wii U, Street Fighter 2 turns 25 next year and it would be fair to say Nintendo helped SF2 in the west and in peoples homes. It seems a shame that it's likely any "celebrations" will be PlayStation exclusive.

@VectrexRoliYeah, I played it quite a bit at last year's SXSW Gaming Expo, and I didn't have a problem with it. It literally has the exact same effect as the 3DS. The only difference is it's graphics are only in red and black, and there's no option to turn the 3D off. Also, it's much less powerful of a system (obviously).

Virtual Boy needs to come to 3DS. It's the only system that truly is born to be brought back alive to 3DS.

What I have been thinking for years already is that Nintendo should bring all the Virtual Boy games to 3DS and have a few colour modes available, one with the original eyes exploding red&black colours, one with Gameboys green&black colours and then even one with full colours like the mock up picture that Renegade Kid's Jools Watsham showed at some point last year.